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(Jane dictates:) I explained this matter to you before. She is always slightly dubious and somewhat doubtful before a session, as she has explained herself, since she is the one through whom I speak. The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely and this upsets that all-present ego, and would seem sometimes to drive it to distraction.

Now there is a point I would like to make regarding your inner visions, my dear Joseph, and also concerning any perceptions of this sort whether through pictures or any other means.

(During break I also mentioned that I hoped Seth would discuss my sensations of last Saturday evening. I had the typewritten description on the table before me. Jane, her voice normal, resumed pacing in her stocking feet, and dictating at 10:02.)

One of the advantages of the inner senses as they operate together is this ability to experience whole entirety patterns, and it is difficult to dilute this, to drop it so to speak, drop by drop. I would like to say something about Joseph’s experience the other evening, but I also want to go into the invention of the soul.

You had better stand up for a moment and move around. That is what you are supposed to do in these frequent breaks from the material. There is no reason why you cannot stand. There are articles of furniture upon which you can rest your pad. Surely I should not have to remind you of the practicality of camouflage patterns, with which I am no longer concerned. If I were as dependent upon them as you are, I would use them better. Indeed, I did when I was. Please do get comfortable.

The circumstances at your end just happened to be right for something like this to occur. It was like a sudden opening of a door. You didn’t know how to open it any further, and if I may say so, you didn’t even know how to close it. And yet you would not even have admitted the experience consciously not too long ago, as something like it occurred at an earlier date and consciously you forgot it.

The first time this happened you were calling for help. Like most of the human race you feared the inner world so strongly, even though you were somewhat acquainted with it through your art, that nothing but panic would ever force you to try that invisible knob.

Your feeling of a door or funnel is quite legitimate, however, and if you felt attacked because of the onrush of data that seemed to crash down upon you, it was only because of your lack of ability to control the volume, so to speak; although in this case such an imaginary knob would control much more.

At this stage you will do what you can to encourage it without my telling you, yourself, as you yourself initiated the event to begin with. Your own innate inner knowledge will aid you, and any intellectual comprehension at this time would not help; later it may.

(Break at 11:01. Seth’s material had reminded Jane that several times in the past she’d had the experience of hearing music when none was to be heard—that is, no radios were playing within range, etc. Jane has very acute hearing, but was still sure the music came from within. And usually she would realize that it had been “playing” for some time as she went about her duties before she became aware of it consciously. Jane resumed at 11:07.)

Since you both are tiring I will end this session. The one point I would like to make, first, is this: Conscious fear is usually the main hindrance as far as data from the inner senses is concerned. Therefore, a realization that these senses belong to you and are quite natural will help you avoid the otherwise unavoidable, almost automatic closing off of such data by the consciousness.